High School 2.0
Dale Mezzacappa,
Education Next,
Apr 05, 2010
So they spent all this money on technology, then spent the next year trying to stop students from using it. Sounds like a management problem, not a technology problem. A failure of standardized, centralized curriculum. From the article:
"As soon as we had to fit within the system, we lost everything innovative," he said. "All over the country, urban districts are failing with the traditional curriculum. There's a 45 percent dropout rate. These students don't need that. They need something very different. Successful people learned by tinkering, by doing, they did not learn by sitting in a classroom in front of a board." There's also an associated podcast. Via Joanne Jacobs.
"As soon as we had to fit within the system, we lost everything innovative," he said. "All over the country, urban districts are failing with the traditional curriculum. There's a 45 percent dropout rate. These students don't need that. They need something very different. Successful people learned by tinkering, by doing, they did not learn by sitting in a classroom in front of a board." There's also an associated podcast. Via Joanne Jacobs.
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